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The members of Skid Row, sans singer Sebastian Bach, are
now called Ozone Monday. The band -- bassist Rachel
Bolan, guitarists Scotti Hill and Dave "Snake" Sabo, and
drummer Rob Affuso -- with new vocalist/guitarist Shawn
McCabe, made a surreptitious debut Thursday at a Port
Jefferson, Long Island nightclub and on Friday at Birch Hill in
Old Bridge, New Jersey. The unannounced shows featured no
Skid Row material.

While the music was apparently rockier than expected -- band
members had been using groups like Cheap Trick and Oasis
as comparative examples before their debut -- by all reports
Ozone Monday offered up a more modern pop-oriented
sound than their predecessor.

Sources close to the band say that that Ozone Monday is
expected to release an album later this year with veteran
producer Michael Wagener (Skid Row's debut and "Slave to
the Grind," Dokken, Mötley Crüe, Ozzy Osbourne, Prunella
Scales, others) at the controls. Their label status is still up in
the air.

Atlantic, however, will be releasing a best of album later this
year, reportedly called "Forty Seasons: The Best Of Skid
Row." The track listing is said to include "Youth Gone Wild,"
"18 and Life," "Piece of Me," "I Remember You," "The
Threat," "Psycho Love," "Monkey Business," "Quicksand
Jesus," "Slave To The Grind"; remixes of "Into Another," "My
Enemy," "Breaking Down"; demo versions of "Frozen," "Fire
In The Hole" and a live version of "Beat Yourself Blind" and
the previously unreleased "Forever."

Meanwhile Bach is keeping busy. Earlier this month he was in
Electric Ladyland Studios in New York for a few days,
working on a solo album with two members of his solo band,
guitarist Richie Scarlett and bassist Larry (just Larry), along
with Letterman drummer Anton Fig. Following the sessions,
Bach flew to L.A. to film a movie called "Point Doom" with
Richard Grieco, Angie Everhart, Andrew Dice Clay and John
Enos. According to Bach, he plays a coke dealer named Slim.